Word: affluents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most adoption agencies no longer insist that applicants must be affluent and childless. In Texas, families with incomes as low as $3,000 have been allowed to take children, and Los Angeles County has placed some with families on relief. The old thumb rule that the parents' combined ages could not exceed 80 is largely gone. California and several other states have permitted a few unmarried women to adopt children...
...mission (John Winthrop's words when founding Boston, "We shall be as a city upon a hill," are plastered all over public buildings) met in the minds of some of the Boston Irish. It was this type of thinking, plus the love of an uproarious battle that prompted affluent, well-educated families like the Kinsellas to offer one of their own as a candidate for public office. Phil Kinsella, the brother of the Chosen One, Charles, was once asked why his brother was running for mayor...
...college, rather than the fund-raising pros, must nail down the donors. Operating on the rough rule that 90% of most drive proceeds will come from 10% of the donors, schools work on their wealthiest friends first. Early announcements of big gifts often entice other affluent donors to follow suit, although the approach has its hazards. One Midwestern multimillionaire kept complaining when a college stalled its announcement of his $100,000 gift; school officers could not tell him that they had expected $10 million and feared his example would induce every potential $100,000 donor to scale down...
That was written 15 years ago when we were examining the "silent" generation. Today the young are anything but silent. Americans under 25, who will soon outnumber their elders, exhibit many features, make many statements, suggest many pictures, often conflicting-they are well-educated, affluent, rebellious, responsible, pragmatic, idealistic, brave, "alienated," and hopeful. Who they are and what they stand for are the subjects under study...
...today's affluent Japan, the Socialists have had little success with their doctrinaire, Peking-lining appeals. They failed last year to block the treaty that normalized relations with Korea. Nor have they been able to force Sato to declare the country off limits to visiting U.S. nuclear-powered submarines or to dissociate Japan from the U.S. stand in Viet Nam. Though most Japanese are prospering as never before, the Socialists still rant about complete nationalization of all Japanese industry and the need for class warfare...